puana

For Dental & Medical Offices

The patient relaxes before you begin.

Calm, fully licensed background music for dental offices, medical practices, and waiting rooms. No PRO fees. No contracts. Just the right sound to ease anxiety and set the tone.

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The anxiety problem

36% of people fear the dentist. Music is the cheapest anxiolytic you can prescribe.

Dental anxiety is not a minor inconvenience. It causes patients to delay care, cancel appointments, and avoid treatment until pain forces their hand. It makes procedures harder — tense muscles, elevated heart rate, a patient who flinches at every sound.

Research published in the British Dental Journal found that patients exposed to calming music during procedures reported significantly lower anxiety and pain scores. The effect is physiological: music at 60-80 BPM synchronizes with resting heart rate, lowering cortisol and activating the parasympathetic nervous system.

The waiting room matters too. That silence — or worse, the muffled sound of a drill from the next room — amplifies dread. The right music fills that void with something that says: you are in a calm, competent place.

A relaxed patient is easier to treat, recovers faster, and comes back. The music pays for itself before the first appointment ends.

Every room, every purpose

Three rooms. Three different needs.

A dental practice is not one space. The waiting room calms. The treatment room focuses. The recovery area soothes. Puana lets you run separate streams for each — with independent schedules, genres, and volume levels.

Waiting room

Calm the arrival

Soft ambient piano, gentle acoustic. Replace silence and anxiety with warmth. Keep volume low enough for conversation.

Treatment room

Mask the procedure

Ambient textures, lo-fi, new age. Steady rhythm at 60-80 BPM. Soft enough that your voice carries clearly above it.

Recovery area

Ease the transition

Gentle classical, peaceful ambient. Barely audible. A patient coming out of a procedure needs calm, not stimulation.

Pediatric

Gentle and warm

Light acoustic, soft piano, playful ambient. Familiar-feeling without being childish. Calms kids and parents alike.

Staff areas

The team exhales

Whatever the team needs between patients. Lo-fi, jazz, something with a little more energy. Their space, their sound.

After hours

Close and reset

Silence, or a slow wind-down. Your schedule handles the transition automatically at closing time.

From a cafe in Michigan

“I built Puana because every space deserves music that fits. Not a random playlist. Not silence. Something that makes the room feel like someone thought about it.”

Jesse Meria runs a cafe in Charlevoix, Michigan. He built Puana because finding the right background music for a real space was harder than it should have been — personal playlists are illegal, business music services sound generic, and nobody wants to pay three separate licensing agencies just to play ambient jazz.

Puana is a library of thousands of original tracks — each one composed to feel like it belongs somewhere real. You describe the atmosphere you want. Puana plays exactly that.

Whether it is a cafe, a restaurant, or a dental practice — the principle is the same. The right music makes the space work better. For the people in it, and for the people running it.

Jesse Meria

Founder, Puana · Owner, Cafe Meria · Charlevoix, MI

What you get

Everything included. Nothing to figure out.

Thousands of original tracks

Ambient, classical, acoustic, jazz, lo-fi, new age, piano. Every track composed for real spaces — not stock libraries.

15-minute scheduling

Different sounds for different dayparts. Morning calm, midday focus, afternoon wind-down. Set it once and forget it.

License certificate

Download a commercial license proving every track is legal. Present it to any licensing auditor with confidence.

No PRO fees — ever

No BMI. No ASCAP. No SESAC. No additional licensing fees. Your subscription covers everything.

Explicit content filter

One toggle. Every track stays appropriate for a clinical setting. No surprises for patients or staff.

Team access

Front desk controls playback. Practice managers control scheduling and settings. Each person gets their own access.

Volume precision

Background music near procedures needs to be low enough for clear communication. Schedule volume levels by room and time.

Multi-location

Multiple offices, each with its own schedule and settings. One dashboard for your entire practice.

The math

Playing personal playlists in your practice can cost you $30,000.

Personal streaming services are not licensed for commercial use. The fine for copyright infringement is up to $30,000 per track. And 83% of businesses are doing it right now without knowing.

The “legal” alternative? A business music service ($25–30/mo) plus BMI ($250-500/year) plus ASCAP ($220-500/year) plus SESAC ($200-400/year). Total: $470-1,400+/year per year. And the music probably does not sound like it belongs in a dental office.

Traditional setup

Music service + BMI + ASCAP + SESAC

$1,100–2,800/yr
Puana

Everything included. No PRO fees.

$14.99/mo

Common questions

Everything you need to know.

Do I need a separate music license for my dental office?

If you play personal streaming services in your practice, you are violating copyright law. Businesses have been fined up to $30,000 per track. Puana includes full commercial licensing in your subscription — no BMI, ASCAP, or SESAC fees required.

What kind of music works best for dental offices?

Research shows that ambient, classical, and acoustic music at moderate volume reduces patient anxiety and perceived pain. Puana has thousands of original tracks across ambient, classical, acoustic, jazz, lo-fi, and new age — all composed for real spaces, not stock libraries.

Can I set different music for different areas of my practice?

Yes. With multi-location support, you can run separate audio streams for your waiting room, treatment rooms, and recovery area — each with its own schedule, genre, and volume level. One dashboard controls everything.

Will the music interfere with patient communication?

Puana's tracks are composed to sit in the background. Most are instrumental with soft dynamics — designed to fill silence without competing with conversation. The explicit content filter ensures nothing inappropriate plays in a clinical setting.

Can my front desk staff control the music?

Yes. You can give front desk staff play and pause control while keeping scheduling and settings locked to practice managers. Each team member gets their own access level — no shared passwords.

Is the music appropriate for pediatric practices?

Absolutely. Puana includes gentle, warm genres perfect for children — light acoustic, soft piano, ambient textures. The explicit content filter keeps everything family-safe. Pediatric practices often use slightly more upbeat, playful tracks compared to adult practices.

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